Shannon Sharpe certainly chose a strange way to criticize what she believes to be Tom Brady's hypocritical comments.
The two-time Super Bowl champion spoke out about Brady's response to Texans linebacker Azeez Al Shaair's hard blow to the head of Trevor Lawrence on Sunday, which left the Jaguars quarterback with a concussion. disagreed with the opinion.
Lawrence was then placed on injured reserve and will miss the remainder of the season.
Al Shail, who has a history of dirty hits, was suspended for three games by the NFL.
In contrast to many others, Brady, who is currently the lead NFL analyst for FOX Sports, placed the blame for the incident on Lawrence for putting himself at risk by choosing to run the ball. “Defensive players must be offensive,'' he said.
“Quarterbacks need to take better care of themselves,” Brady said last week during an appearance on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd. “When you run, you put yourself at a lot of risk. And when you do that, I don't think the onus should be on the offensive players to protect the running offensive quarterback. I don’t think it’s really fair.”
Sharpe said nothing of the sort on his “Nightcap” show with Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, but it's especially true that the seven-time Super Bowl champion's career has now become a quarterback under NFL rules. This was not discussed at all, as it affected how much protection was given to the government.
“Tom Brady is the wrong messenger because the rules have changed,” Sharp said. “Doesn't he know that the 'Brady Rule' was instituted to protect him? Okay; Ocho, I get what he's saying, but he's the wrong messenger. To protect the quarterback. Many of these rules were introduced by him because he benefited from them.
“This is similar to a lot of Hispanic people talking about, 'Yeah, deportation, deportation, deportation.' When they came here, we saw that We know how they got here. Look, it's easy to say after the fact. “Well, I'm here now. I don't care. Close it. Don't let anyone else through.” Tom Brady said, “Well, we don't need to take any more hits. Punish the quarterback.'' Really, brother? Really? Really?
Mr Al Shair apologized to Mr Lawrence in a lengthy post on Monday.
“My goal is to hit you as hard as I can, and then pray that you can still get up and make the next play. And when the game is over, go home to your family without getting hurt, because it's a personal “It's not a competition, it's just a competition!” he wrote.
She added, “We're both trying to do the same thing, provide for our families. I didn't really see him slipping until it was too late. And it all happens in the blink of an eye. Mr. Trevor, we sincerely apologize for what happened.”
But Al-Sha'ir did not shy away from the media and his critics.
“To the rest of the people who have been called out by the reporters to find the villain, all the names in the book, they're getting ready and writing the story.'' [sic]To all my racist and Islamophobic fans and people, you don't know my heart or my character, but I don't have to prove it to you,” he wrote.
The Jaguars are 2-10 and will play the Titans, who are 3-9, on Sunday.
